Equal Partnership

By divine designs, fathers are to preside over their families in love and righteousness and are responsible to provide the necessities of life and protection for their families. Mothers are primarily responsible for the nurture of their children. In these sacred responsibilities, fathers and mothers are obligated to help one another as equal partners. 

The doctrinal concept of equal partnership between men and women

The restored gospel of Jesus Christ proclaims a doctrine that is not widely held in the fallen world, even among certain Christian sects, and that is the doctrine of sincerely equal partnership between men and women, here and in the eternities. Indeed, from our extensive research and reading over the past 15 years, we may go so far as to say that this doctrine, mentioned explicitly in "The Family" A Proclamation to the world,"is revolutionary and distinguishes The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a unique belief system.The term equality means "identity";that is, that two equal things must be identical to each other. Such usage represents a fallen and harmful understanding  of equality that is espoused by Lucifer, who passionately want all be " like himself"'  (2 Nephi 2:27).

Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin taught that the Latter-day Saints theology does not teach the gender difference superimposes a hierarchy between men and women. Thinking about all that we believe to be true about the equality, both here and in Zion, of men and women in God's kingdom: equal in blessings,equal in power, intelligence, wisdom, dignity, respect, giving consent, agency, value, potential, authority, exalted fullness, virtue, spirituality, and spiritual gifts; equal in temporal things in Zion; and equal heirs with Christ. When we read this list, we unconsciously redefine "equality" and "identity" and thus struggle with these concept. And So it is time to work on a personal definition of equal that eschews both intimation of identity or hierarchy. One gender does not have greater eternal possibility than the other.

I grew up being taught that women's were not allowed to work and was only suppose to nurture their children and family. Men's in my culture or family were given more important then the women's but The proclamation to the World helps me understand that men and women are equal, they both have the equality to fulfill the roles and responsibility as parents. If husband work and provide for family then wife nurture their children and family. In marriage never create a gender or other factors differences, god created us all equally.